A. Check your understanding of the words and terms in this chapter by explaining what each of the following mean
-Total war: When a war involved not just countries, but civilians as well.
-Forced labor: When 5 million people were taken to Germany and forced to work for long hours in bad conditions.
-Concentration camps:held "prisoners," mostly Jews... they were forced to work with very little food or water. They could be killed for doing the wrong thing, or even just for no reason at all.
-The Final Solution: this was the way of solving the problems with Jews in Europe... it meant extermination of all Jews by murdering them.
-Ghettos: walled off areas of town which Polish Jews were put in, and were restricted from leaving.
-Extermination camps: gas chambers where Jews were brought to be killed.
-Partisans: armed bands formed by civilians to resist the invaders.
B. Use source A to E in this chapter to explain how each of the following might have been affected by the war.
1. A Chinese family in Sunkiang in 1938- they probably would have been killed by aerial bombing.
2. A French family in North-Eastern France in 1940- they would probably be feelings from the Germans.
3. A Soviet aircraft factory worker in 1941- well, they were out of reach of the Germans, so they may have been feeling safe.
4. A Jewish person anywhere in Germany in 1942- they would probably be taken to a concentration camp where they would be worked to death, or put into a gas chamber.
5. The son of a captured Yugoslav partisan in 1943- They would be sent to a children's camp, deprived of food and water.
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